I don't know if that's the cause, but he does make a good point about the so-called "smart home". Even the most tech-savvy people I know still don't hook every single thing in their house up to their computer, they have better things to do and so do I. I kind of thought it was a silly idea when I first heard it, so thanks to John Dvorak for confirming that for me.

"Think this hurricane season was bad? Well according to the New York Times, a study
was published online on Tuesday by The Journal of Climate indicating
that warming ocean temperatures are going to make for stronger, wetter
hurricanes in the coming years and decades. An abstract
of the article concludes cheerfully enough that 'greenhouse gas-induced
warming may lead to a gradually increasing risk in the occurrence of
highly destructive category-5 storms.' Oh joy."

The nameserver host settings did not transfer however ... and there was
no clear indication to this effect (at least not to me).

It turns out if you transfer a domain that hosts some of your own dns
servers, you need to separately use their "Domain Host Summary" (on the
bottom right of Manage Domains) to list out your name servers manually.

This is the modern analog to the old Internic Register DNS Host email form.

St. Louis - Fair use was dealt a harsh blow today in a Federal Court decision
that held that programmers are not allowed to create free software
designed to work with commercial products. At issue in the case was
whether three software programmers who created the BnetD game server --
which interoperates with Blizzard video games online -- were in
violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Blizzard
Games' end user license agreement (EULA).

BnetD is an open source program that lets gamers play popular
Blizzard titles like Warcraft with other gamers on servers that don't
belong to Blizzard's Battle.net service. Blizzard argued that the
programmers who wrote BnetD violated the DMCA's anti-circumvention
provisions and that the programmers also violated several parts of
Blizzard's EULA, including a section on reverse engineering.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), co-counsel for the
defendants, argued that programming and distributing BnetD was fair
use. The programmers reverse-engineered Battle.net purely to make their
free product work with it, not to violate copyright.

EFF Staff Attorney Jason Schultz said, "Consumers have a right to
choose where and when they want to use the products they buy. This
ruling gives Blizzard the ability to force you to use their servers
whether you want to or not. Copyright law was meant to promote
competition and creative alternatives, not suppress them."

EFF will appeal the case, challenging the court's ruling that
creating alternative platforms for legitimately purchased content can
be outlawed.